War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Sharp, though, dying sunshine this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley, and warm temps, too — all come to an end this week with rain forecast for Wednesday as a weather part-n-parcel included in a major winter storm predicted for a big part of the country the next few days. Even so, spring is…
A bit overcast this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley — a kick-off to the holiday season. Thursday is Thanksgiving; from there it’s just a hop-skip-and-a-jump to Christmas and the New Year. Shit moves quickly in a well-endowed vacuum. And to start off, Joe Biden is history’s latest to pardon possible table platters: Joe…
Less than a week now to those infamous midterms, and Joe Biden this afternoon pointed a righteous finger at the violent, nasty antics of MAGA Republicans in this serious, ugly fight for democracy. In a speech at Union Station (where else but a beloved train terminal), Joe capped it (CNN): “We can’t take democracy for…
Joe Biden earlier this afternoon: “As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit. Criminal records for marijuana possession have…
Super hot — 112 degrees — this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley, and knowledge we’ve still got probably another week of this shit, makes the whole scene more blistering. Weather on the weather. Also on a hot streak is Joe Biden, swinging back at the nefarious, asshole-lingering Republicans with another go around on…
In this historical flux period right now with American democracy on the line, past situations do make impressions on our current predicament as this country faces a scary, frantic seemingly push-surge to politics of right-wing tomfoolery and violence. If the midterms fail, we’re possibly following history down the freedom drain. We might be on the…
In the darkness, sometimes there’s a flash of light. Maybe not enough to blind you, but enough to see the shift in the wind — and ascertain there could be hope in the face of a shitload of shitty news. Last Tuesday’s big win in Kansas is just one example, and today is further evidence…
Despite all the vaccinations and safety protocols, the COVID virus has turned into a bitch, apparently mutating into various variants that make it hard for everybody/anyone to escape its touch. Here in California (as in many parts of the country), we’ve got a current surge that might top last winter’s Omicron outbreak. What’s happening? Kent…
In the case of the horrid criminal conduct of war in the Ukraine by Vlad Putin’s Russian army with stories of inhumane incidents all over the invaded country every day — Joe Biden is just speaking for reality and justice: Once again, Joe speaks his mind, this time the reality of Ukraine — via The…
Another end to another workweek this Friday evening here in California’s Central Valley, and a full week into a new month with a once new year spiraling along at such a quickened pace you just have to know you’re having an enormous shitload of fun — the only scientific measure of such high-speed time travel.…
